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Authorities are evacuating between Splinter Road and Front Road along U.S. Highway 30 north of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks because of fire and heavy toxic smoke.
The incident happened on Union Pacific Railroad tracks in the city of North Platte earlier today, and has sparked widespread evacuations from the city in Nebraska.
An explosion inside a container at Bailey Yard in North Platte sparked a fire that spread to several cars and release a "toxic smoke" plume about noon Thursday, Union Pacific